Epping Upland, formerly just Epping is a village and

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in the

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district of

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, England.Hagger, Nicholas; ''A View of Epping Forest'', O Books (2012), p. 29. The village is situated on the B181 road, approximately south of the town of

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, and north-west of the town of Epping and the

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. Epping Upland

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is dedicated to All Saints, with the Epping Upland

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part of the

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. The church dates to the 13th century and is Grade II* listed. Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, All Saints was under the jurisdiction of Waltham Abbey. In the first half of the 19th century part of today's town of Epping was within the civil parish of Epping Upland and was part of the ecclesiastical parish centred on All Saints'. The south-eastern urban and market part of Epping Upland joined the hamlet of Epping Street to become the town of Epping. Lewis, Samuel (1840), ''A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate & Market Towns...'', p. 160. Reprint Nabu Press (2014). Gorton, John; ''A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland; Compiled from Local Information, and the Most Recent and Official Authorities'' (1833), p. 741. Reprint Nabu Press (2011). In 1831 the village of Epping Upland had a population of 427 within 83 houses. At the time, eighty per cent of the village population, and forty per cent of the parish, were employed in agriculture. Epping Upland - Upland Road looking east towards Takeleys

Epping Upland - Upland Road looking east towards Takeleys

Among further listed Epping Upland village buildings is Takeleys, a Grade II timber-framed house, as part of a moated site, which dates to the 16th century ('' Pevsner'': early 17th), with 18th-century alterations. It contains an "elaborately carved" chimney piece and, in an upper room, 17th-century brown and black wall paintings in floral style on plasterwork. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Radcliffe, Enid; ''Essex'' (The Buildings of England),

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(1974) p. 175. On 8 September 1944, during the Second World War, the first German

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to be launched landed at Epping Upland. The local primary school is Epping Upland C of E Primary School. Epping Upland has bus services to Epping and Harlow.

Civil parish

Epping Upland civil parish stretches from the southern outskirts of Harlow in the north to the

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in the south, a distance of approximately , and a distance of 3 miles west of Thornwood Common in the east. The village of Epping Green and the hamlets of Jacks Hatch and Rye Hill are situated just inside the northern edge of the civil parish. In 2001 the population of Epping Upland Parish was 790,"Epping Upland CP (Parish)"

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increasing to 831 at the 2011 Census. The parish includes the earthwork remains of the scheduled Ambresbury Banks, an

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References

External links

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Epping Upland Parish CouncilEpping Upland CE Primary SchoolAll Saints Church, Epping UplandEpping Forest District CouncilEssex County Council
{{authority control Villages in Essex Epping Forest District Civil parishes in Essex